72nd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2003 Regular Session
 
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 LC 1273
 
                    House Joint Resolution 5
 
Ordered printed by the Speaker pursuant to House Rule 12.00A (5).
  Presession filed (at the request of Joint Legislative Committee
  on Information Management and Technology for Oregon
  Telecommunication Coordinating Council)
 
 
                             SUMMARY
 
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.
 
  Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to develop
unified state plan for use of telecommunications in Oregon
educational institutions.
 
                        JOINT RESOLUTION
  Whereas schools, community colleges and universities across the
State of Oregon currently utilize telecommunications to provide
educational opportunities throughout the state; and
  Whereas state institutions of higher education reach students
through the use of telecommunications, providing the students an
opportunity to develop their academic potential regardless of
prohibitive distances; and
  Whereas teachers need the resources and training to meet the
challenge of new telecommunications-based classroom
configurations and curricula in order to create a stimulating
educational environment; and
  Whereas telecommunications can aid education providers in
efficiently administering the day-to-day operations of their
school districts through, among other things, faculty and staff
development training, meeting attendance and participation; and
  Whereas narrowband technologies currently used in rural school
districts compromise the delivery of educational content to
Oregon's rural students; and
  Whereas the current efforts to facilitate learning through the
use of telecommunications remain decentralized and uncoordinated,
thereby failing to benefit from efficient use of resources to
accomplish important educational goals; and
  Whereas a comprehensive telecommunications plan would recognize
the need and opportunity for Oregon's education providers to
create and fund a plan that would best meet the needs of all of
Oregon's students; now, therefore,
Be It Resolved by the Legislative Assembly of the State of
  Oregon:
  That we, the members of the Seventy-second Legislative
Assembly, direct the Oregon Department of Administrative Services
to draft and publish a unified state plan to integrate all school
district, education service district, community college district,
Oregon University System and Oregon Health and Science University
telecommunications plans into one unified state plan for the use
and delivery of educational services via telecommunications
throughout the State of Oregon; and be it further
  Resolved, That we, the members of the Seventy-second
Legislative Assembly, emphasize that the goal of this unified
state plan during the 2003-2005 biennium is to provide equal
educational opportunities through telecommunications to all
students in the state.
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